You are very fond of bending little minds; but where little minds belong to rich people in authority, I think they have — Jane Austen, Emma
You are very fond of bending little minds; but where little minds belong to rich people in authority, I think they have — Jane Austen, Emma
You are very fond of bending little minds; but where little minds belong to rich people in authority, I think they have — Jane Austen, Emma
You are very fond of bending little minds; but where little minds belong to rich people in authority, I think they have — Jane Austen, Emma
You are very fond of bending little minds; but where little minds belong to rich people in authority, I think they have — Jane Austen, Emma
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You are very fond of bending little minds; but where little minds belong to rich people in authority, I think they have a knack of swelling out, till they are quite as unmanageable as great ones.

— Jane Austen, Emma
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